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when the World
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Again, Nervous Thunder Moves Across Dead Air

Ted Jackins

Put your head against the door,
this is my nervous breakdown,
and listen to my heart as it beats
in two from within a supposedly
shatter proof shell.
This is what it feels like
to wait outside in the rain
for a greater purpose
which never arrives,
all awash in a storm of
lost opportunities
with a permanent look
of dread and sickness
on a pale,
moonlit ghost face.
Alone,
I watch as more
feelings flow downwards
into the circles of two souls
kept apart
merely out of fear
of what might have been.
Again,
I try not to focus on
the pain,
but its presence is
always felt
within my heart
which aches with
each clap of thunder,
and my thoughts
all echo the puddles
which slowly form
all around me.
Matters of fate
never fail to exclude
me once more
as they make their
plans without informing
me first,
so go ahead and listen
close to my being
as it breaks
if it’ll change a single
thing you had in mind.
I swear I’ll make it
all up to you in time,
but for now I must
seek shelter
before this storm,
which hangs dark
overhead,
can have a chance
to swallow me up
and push me
to start anymore
fires
that I can’t seem
to extinguish
on my own.



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